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Towards Infinity - Foreword
and now makes for the ascent, reveals a new technique unknown to earlier extant Yoga literature. We do have descriptions of the Bhumikas (Sapta-Bhumikas) and Granthis insomeoftheUpanishads,butwenevercome across the psychological proof of their nature and being and status of Jnana. Shri Ram Chandra Ji gives us an account of the thirteen granthis and throws wonderful light on them. They are not to be cut but loosened and transcended. Going further than any, he shows higher levels of being which transcend the Jnana - Bhumikas and arise at the supreme transcendent states which are open to the human being. But at that stage the human soul would have passed beyond anything that we call human and arrive at the Ultimate Being. In and through the proper understanding through meditation (abhyasa) one can discern the stages at which some of the mightiest saints and sages of history had arrived during their lives, and verily in oneself the blessedness that is waiting to be explored and entered into by one. Here we discern the authentic voice of a Supreme Master, whose love for man transcends anything that one knows of. In a world of inner conflicts it is easy to raise the slogans of world welfare without preparing each for the welfare, for it is ever true that the problem of the Universe is the problem of the individual. Those who speak of sarvamukti (simultaneous universal emancipation) hardly try to achieve their own emancipation for it is verily the truth that the individual emancipation is the first step towards
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